Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam, 37, alleged victim of Bruce McArthur

[matou]

Kirushna is also the youngest of BM's victims so far.

 

[matou]

Toronto police were able to identify Kanagaratnam with the help of an international government agency after circulating a photo of him that was found during their investigation.

I'm pretty sure the photo they circulated is the one that police released today. That photo is in the brother's fb with a TPS detective's card clipped to it.

https://www.dailyxtra.com/alleged-s...r-charged-with-murdering-sri-lankan-man-86000

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10216378095353406&set=pcb.10216378095673414&type=3&theater

 

[dotr]

I'm pretty sure the photo they circulated is the one that police released today. That photo is in the brother's fb with a TPS detective's card clipped to it.

https://www.dailyxtra.com/alleged-s...r-charged-with-murdering-sri-lankan-man-86000

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10216378095353406&set=pcb.10216378095673414&type=3&theater

:rose:

Mr Kanagaratnam

 

[Maple]

The writing under the family's FB photos states in Tamil that his visa had been denied in Canada. Unfortunately, that might mean that his refugee claim had been denied. If so, no wonder no one suspected he was missing, maybe thinking he had left the country on his own will. Such a sad ending

 

[matou]

Soroush Mahmudi was killed in Aug 2015 and was from Scarborough. Kirushna was also from Scarborough and was killed sometime between Sept and Dec 2015. I wonder if there is some connection between the two victims?

 

[dotr]

Wondering about this man from India, who is missing in Toronto.
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?369275-Lehmber-Singh-30-(musician-visiting-from-India)Toronto-5-Nov-2015&p=14015324#post14015324
Lehmber Singh, 30 (musician visiting from India)Toronto, 5 Nov 2015

 

[TLC4645]

Wondering about this man from India, who is missing in Toronto.
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?369275-Lehmber-Singh-30-(musician-visiting-from-India)Toronto-5-Nov-2015&p=14015324#post14015324
Lehmber Singh, 30 (musician visiting from India)Toronto, 5 Nov 2015

I've seen this one before and wondered the same thing.

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[Maple]

Soroush Mahmudi was killed in Aug 2015 and was from Scarborough. Kirushna was also from Scarborough and was killed sometime between Sept and Dec 2015. I wonder if there is some connection between the two victims?

I also wondered about that too.

I wondered if somehow through a job/work of some kind the two men came into contact with BM. But, I believe it was written somewhere that Soroush Mahmudi was a painter.

IMO, we can only speculate that if in fact Kirushna had been refused refugee status in Canada at the time of his disappearance, he may have been looking for work where he could earn under the table. And, I wonder if BM posted for landscaping work/job and offered such.

There is also BM's connection to the 227 Conlins house in Scarborough where he was said to have spent some time with a friend who owned the house. Wonder if this is at all close to where either Soroush or Kirushna lived or worked.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...gh-home-property-in-madoc-in-murder-case.html

 

[dotr]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...a-on-mv-sun-sea-to-protect-his-life-1.4622216

Pranavan and Kanagaratnam were two of 492 Sri Lankan asylum seekers brought to shore off the B.C. coast in August 2010 after a three-month journey from Thailand.

[h=1]Alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur's latest victim came to Canada on MV Sun Sea to 'protect his life'[/h]

Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam came to Canada on the MV Sun Sea in 2010 to "protect his life," according to a Toronto man who was on the cargo ship with him — but instead Kanagaratnam ended up dead.

Pranavan said he and Kanagaratnam both lost brothers in the war, and shared their experiences while on the ship. He said they didn't really talk once they got to Canada but he saw a Facebook post about Kanagaratnam last year.
"I saw the pictures on Facebook that relatives are looking for him, so myself I thought maybe he was hiding himself," said Pranavan. "I really feel bad."

Pranavan said he'd thought Kanagaratnam might be hiding because his refugee claim was rejected.

A police source previously told CBC Toronto that the image came from a cache of images found on McArthur's computer.

 

[lcid]

I also wondered about that too.

I wondered if somehow through a job/work of some kind the two men came into contact with BM. But, I believe it was written somewhere that Soroush Mahmudi was a painter.

IMO, we can only speculate that if in fact Kirushna had been refused refugee status in Canada at the time of his disappearance, he may have been looking for work where he could earn under the table. And, I wonder if BM posted for landscaping work/job and offered such.

There is also BM's connection to the 227 Conlins house in Scarborough where he was said to have spent some time with a friend who owned the house. Wonder if this is at all close to where either Soroush or Kirushna lived or worked.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...gh-home-property-in-madoc-in-murder-case.html

This has been my thought. If his refugee claim was denied, work with under the table pay woudl be ideal - maybe he answered an ad BM posted

 

[dotr]

@ 2:05 Kumar K worked in restaurants and a moving company.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkFP_4gaWgU

Published on Apr 16, 2018 Adrian Ghobrial speaks with Dinsan Vanniyansingam, a friend of the 8th alleged murder victim of Bruce McArthur, Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam, who says they came to Canada in August of 2010 with 490 other asylum seekers on the “MV Sun Sea".

 

[thelesis]

Long shot, but I'm wondering if Kirushna applied for refugee status based on his sexual orientation but was rejected because, by the looks of things, homosexuality is illegal in Sri Lanka but there isn't an immediate threat to your life. If he was gay and tried to leave Sri Lanka because of it, he and his family may be keeping that on the down low.

 

[dotr]

Lengthy article.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...eved-to-be-bruce-mcarthurs-eighth-victim.html
By Fatima SyedStaff Reporter
Wendy GillisCrime Reporter

April 20, 2018

[h=1]They thought he was hiding: The story behind the Tamil refugee believed to be Bruce McArthur’s eighth victim[/h]To much of the world, the man in the unsettling photograph — bearded, with unkempt hair, partially shut eyes and slightly parted lips — was nameless. But as the image circulated for weeks on the news and in social media, family and friends recognized Kirushnakumar Kanagaratnam.

Once his refugee claim was rejected, he thought his life was gone,” Sasitharan Kulasegaram, a fellow Sri Lankan refugee.The precariousness of his situation is how some who knew Kanagaratnam believe he may have come into contact with McArthur. Unlike the accused killer’s other victims, police this week said, Kanagaratnam does not have a direct connection to the Gay Village and multiple people told the Star they did not believe he was gay. The investigation is in the early stages.

Some members of the Tamil community say he may have been living on the streets surrounding the Church and Wellesley community. There is also speculation that Kanagaratnam could have encountered McArthur through one of his odd jobs, possibly a landscaping gig.

 

[dotr]

April 22 2018
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/bruce-mcarthur-eighth-victim-immigration-law-1.4629255

[h=1]Canada 'failed' latest victim of alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur, migrant workers groups say[/h][h=2]Death of refugee claimant Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam, 37, highlights need for change to immigration system[/h]

"The first thing that happened to him was he was imprisoned and the last thing that happened to him was that he was murdered".- Syed Hassan , Migrant Workers Alliance for Change
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[Maple]

As I learn more and more about the story of Mr. Kanagaratnam, my heart aches. Such a sad beginning and a tragic ending to his life in Canada.

 

[dotr]

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...eved-to-be-bruce-mcarthurs-eighth-victim.html

An old photo of Kirushnakumar Kanagaratnam in Sri Lanka as a young man.

 

[dotr]

rbbm.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...eeker-allegedly-killed-by-bruce-mcarthur.html
By Fatima SyedApril 29, 2018

The last time Gobi Pathmanathan saw his roommate, Kirushnakumar Kanagaratnam, he was trying to stop him from leaving their home at Kennedy and Ellesmere Rd.

The two men had been friends for 15 years, starting when they were neighbours in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Their bond was strengthened during a perilous voyage from Thailand to Vancouver aboard the MV Sun Sea in 2010.

Pathmanathan told the Star about his friend at a memorial for Kanagaratnam on Sunday in Scarborough, surrounded by around 100 fellow Sun Sea passengers — many wearing white shirts as a sign of unity. Some were legal refugees, others still undocumented. It was the first time they had been in a room together since the 100 days they spent aboard a rickety two-deck cargo ship more than seven years ago.

Many of those in attendance had instantly recognized Kanagaratnam in the picture shared by police a month earlier of a then unidentified victim of the alleged serial killer.

“I know his face,” said Pathmanathan. “I know it for 15 years. It was him.”

No one, however, went to police. They just told each other.

“Our cases were still pending,” Suganthan Mahadeva, a Sun Sea passenger whose refugee appeal is coming up, said through a translator. Last year, Kanagaratnam’s brother made a three-way call to him and another friend, asking them to search for him.

“We all believed he was hiding. If they searched for him, they would have arrested him,” Mahadeva said, adding that for this community, not hearing from someone for months is a normal occurrence.

 

[TLC4645]

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...mcarthur-investigation-enters-next-phase.html

Property searches starting in McArthur case.

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[TLC4645]

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Cops look for links between accused serial killer and unsolved murders

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The probe into accused serial killer Bruce McArthur is hitting multi-jurisdictional overdrive as cops try to link the landscaper to unsolved homicides.

Some of the unsolved killings and missing person’s investigations date to the 1970s.

McArthur, 66, was arrested in January and has been charged with eight counts of first-degree murder in the grisly slayings of men who vanished from the city’s Gay Village.

Toronto detectives are calling it the biggest operation in the force’s history.

“They’re casting a really wide net,” criminologist Michael Arntfield told the Toronto Sun.

“Investigators need to know his precise movements [over the decades].”

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Arntfield is a former cop well-known for his involvement in the Cold Case Society and the Murder Accountability Project.

He said that particularly vexing to cops is McArthur’s past as a longtime travelling salesman who sold socks for Stanfields around the province.

It’s believed his sales territory was at different times in northern and eastern Ontario.

But detectives are now also looking at the possibility that the suspected killer may have murdered women as well as men.

“Durham Regional are looking at a number of cases [McArthur lived with his family for years in Oshawa] and not just on young men,” Arntfield said, adding the victimology may be more variable than previously believed.



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[dotr]

'Big questions' hang over funeral of alleged Bruce McArthur victim | CBC News
Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam, 37, was laid to rest in Markham
CBC News · Posted: Nov 25, 2018 6:27 PM ET | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

The family of Kirushna Kumar Kanagarat travelled from Sri Lanka, the U.K and France for his funeral service in Markham on Sunday. (Adrian Cheung/CBC)
Family and friends from around the world gathered in Toronto to lay to rest Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam, a man who sought refuge in Canada only to meet a violent end.

Kanagaratnam's loved ones travelled from their homes in Sri Lanka, England and France for his funeral service, held Sunday afternoon in Markham.

He was remembered as a man who hoped for a "bright future" in a new home after fleeing his native Sri Lanka when that country's civil war came to a bloody crescendo in 2009.